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Akimov Comedy Theatre
AKIMOV COMEDY THEATRE (56 Nevsky Prospect). Founded in 1926 as the Satire Theatre (private non-repertory company). Originally, it mainly produced so-called programme-reviews comprised of burning miniatures. B.A. Babochkin, L.O
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Akimov N.P. (1901-1968) director
AKIMOV Nikolay Pavlovich (1901-1968), artist, director, pedagogue, theatre worker, People's Artist of the USSR (1961). From 1910 he lived in Tsarskoe Selo, from 1912 in St. Petersburg. Studied in St
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Alchevsky I.A. (1876-1917), singer
ALCHEVSKY Ivan Alexeevich (1876-1917), opera singer, lyrical dramatic tenor. Learned to sing under elder brother, G.A. Alchevsky. From 1896 to 1901, he was in the Natural Science Department of the University of Kharkov
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Alexandrinsky Theatre
ALEXANDRINSKY THEATRE (2 Ostrovskogo Square), called Alexandrinsky Theatre 1832-1920, it was granted the status of Academic in 1919, and in 1920 named the Petrograd (Leningrad) State Academic Drama Theatre (Akdrama, Gosdrama)
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Alexeev F.Y. (1753/55-1824), artist
ALEXEEV Fedor Yakovlevich (between 1753 and 1755, St. Petersburg - 1824), painter, watercolourist. He was a student of the Academy of Arts in 1766-73 and its retainer in Venice in 1773-77 where he mastered theatre painting. Upon his return to St
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Altman N.I. (1889-1970), artist
ALTMAN Natan Isaevich (1889-1970, Leningrad), painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, recognised as an honoured painter of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1968. He studied at the Odessa Drawing School in 1902-07 and M
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Andreev V.V., (1861-1918) musician
ANDREEV Vasily Vasilievich (1861-1918, Petrograd), musician, pedagogue, virtuoso balalaika-player, inventor of the instrument's concert version, creator of various "national instrument" ensembles and orchestras whose repertoire, arrangement
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Andreeva-Delmas L.A. (1884-1969), singer
ANDREEVA-DELMAS Lyubov Alexandrovna (nee Tishchinskaya; appeared under the stage name of Delmas, married name Andreeva) (1884-1969, Leningrad), opera singer (mezzo-soprano), chamber singer, and teacher. Studied at the St
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Andzhan Anton Iosifovich (1892-1974), make-up artist
ANDZHAN Anton Iosifovich (1892-1974), make-up artist, Honoured Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1967). He worked as a make-up artist in St. Petersburg’s theatres and worked on the most prominent actors of the Alexandrinsky Theatre
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Angiolini G. (1731-1803), dancer
ANGIOLINI Domenico Gasparo Maria (1731-1803), Italian dancer, ballet master, scenario writer, composer, teacher. In St. Petersburg, he was the court company's first dancer and choreographer (intermittently between 1766 and 1786)
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Anikushin M.K., (1917-1997), sculptor
ANIKUSHIN Mikhail Konstantinovich (1917, St. Petersburg-1997). Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, People's Artist of the USSR (1963), chairman of the management board for Leningrad Department of the Union of Artists (1962-72, 1986-90)
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Anisfeld Boris Izrailevich (1878-1973), artist
ANISFELD Boris Izrailevich (1878-1973), painter and scenic designer. He studied at the Odessa School of Art (1895-1900) and St. Petersburg's Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (1901-09) under Ilya Repin and Kardovsky (1901-09)
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Annenkov Y.P. (1889-1974), artist
ANNENKOV Yury Pavlovich (1889-1974), graphic artist, painter, scene designer, and writer. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1894. He studied in S. M. Seidenberg 's studio, Y. M. Tsionglinsky's workshop in 1909-11, and in Paris in 1911-12
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Antokolsky M.M., (1843-1902), sculptor
ANTOKOLSKY Mark Matveevich (1843-1902), sculptor. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1862-71, in Italy from 1871 to 1877, and in Paris from 1877. Studied at the Academy of Arts under N.S. Pimenova (1862-68; academician since 1871)
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"Aquarium"
"AQUARIUM", an entertainment theatre-garden, set by entrepreneur G.A. Alexandrov (died in 1910), who took a lease on a piece of land at Kamennoostrovsky Avenue in 1886 (on the site of present-day houses Nos
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Aranovich S.D., (1934-1996), film director
ARANOVICH Semen Davidovich (1934-1996), film director, People’s Artist of Russia (1994). Graduated as a director from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1965
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Araya F., (1709 - after 1775), composer
ARAYA Francesco (1709 - after 1775), Italian composer, first foreign Court Kapellmeister, composer of the first opera staged in St. Petersburg (The Might of Love and Hatred, 1736), and the first opera in Russian (Tsefal and Prokris, libretto by A.P
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Arefyev А.D. (1931-1978), painter
AREFYEV Alexander Dmitrievich (1931-1978), painter. Lived in Leningrad from his childhood, he studied in a secondary drawing school in 1942-49, expelled from the ninth grade for formalism, studied at the Medical Institute in 1950-53
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Art Bureau of N. E. Dobychina
ART BUREAU OF N. E. DOBYCHINA, agency negotiating between artists and the public for the purpose of sales and hire. Opened in the fall of 1911 by N. E. Dobychina (1884-1950)
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Art Festivals (entry)
ART FESTIVALS are demonstrations of progress in different fields of art. As a rule, they are periodic and held simultaneously in several city venues. The oldest festival in St
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Art Galleries (entry)
ART GALLERIES. The first art galleries were public, cooperative and private companies that appeared in Leningrad in the mid-1980s. They disrupted the monopoly of state organizations and the Union of Artists on exhibition activity
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Artel of Artists
ARTEL OF ARTISTS (St. Petersburg Artel of Artists), the first ideological association of democratically-minded Russian artists. Founded in 1863 on I. N. Kramskoy's initiative by participants of the so-called Revolt of 14 - graduating students of the
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Artistic Unions (entry)
ARTISTIC UNIONS are unions of artists organized for the purposes of establishing joint ideas and aesthetic programmes, developing professional activity, maintaining educational and promotional efforts and charity
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Artists, Union of
ARTISTS, UNION OF, St. Petersburg Union of the Russian Artists (38 Bolshaya Morskaya Street), creative public association. It was established on 2 August 1932 as the Leningrad Department of the Union of Soviet Artists (LOSSH)
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Asafyev B. V. , (1884-1949) music theorist and composer
ASAFYEV Boris Vladimirovich (penname Igor Glebov) (1884, St. Petersburg - 1949), music theorist, composer, People"s Artist of the USSR (1946), member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946)
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Asanova Dinara Kuldashevna (1942-1985), film director
ASANOVA Dinara Kuldashevna (1942-1985, Leningrad), film director, Honoured Worker of the Arts of the RSFSR (1980). Graduated from the production department of VGiK (1968). From 1969, she worked as director in Lenfilm Studio
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Asenkova V.N., (1817-1841), actress
ASENKOVA Varvara Nikolaevna (1817 - 1841, St. Petersburg), actress. Studied at the Petersburg Drama School (1828-30) and in a private boarding school, graduating from neither one. In 1835 she was trained by I.I
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Association of Artists
ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS, an artistic union was established by a group of former members of the St. Petersburg Society of Artists in 1904. The Charter was approved in 1906
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Auer L. (1845-1930), violinist
AUER Leopold (1845-1930), violinist, pedagogue, conductor, student of J. Joachim. Came from Austria-Hungary. Lived in St. Petersburg in 1868-1917. During a tour to London, became acquainted with A. G
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Averbakh I.А., (1934-1986), film director
AVERBAKH Ilya Alexandrovich (1934 - 1986, Leningrad), film director and script writer, recipient of the Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1976
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